DST: Boon or bust?

October 12, 2006|Bill Moor

As Daylight Savings Time gets ready to shuffle off into the sunset at this end of this month, how have you done with it? Has it been harder to get up in the morning for you? Was it tougher to get the kids in at night for their beddy-bye? Did it throw off your TV watching? Most of us in Indiana experienced Eastern Daylight Time for the first time in more than 30 years. I dreaded its coming. I wanted to stay the same - on Eastern Standard Time. And if we had to change, I preferred to go to Central Daylight Time to stay on the same time as Chicago. But to be honest, I ended up liking the later sunset more than I disliked the later mornings. Being able to ride my bike or work in the yard up until 9 p.m. in the summer was pretty neat. And now, we're switching back. Good thing, I guess, because I sure don't want it to still be dark at 9 a.m. But the sudden change of the time switch will throw me off a little for a while. I'm not big into sudden changes. I'll survive it, though. And I've done better with EDT than I thought I would. How about you? Has Daylight Savings Time been a boon or a bust for you? Any examples you want to share? I'll share one - because the Cubs' games started an hour later than in previous seasons for our area, I would often go to bed before night games were over. Considering how the Cubs played this year, that worked out rather well.